United Shoe Machinery Co. v. Holt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed December 6, and amended December 17, 1901, against J. Sumner Holt and Russell S. Holt, both of Boston, copartners doing business under the name of J. S. Holt and Company, and Myron L. Whitcomb and Howard L.' Clark, both of Haverhill, copartners doing business under the name of J. H. Winchell and Company, to obtain possession of twenty-six lasting machines leased by the Boston Lasting Machine Company, whose rights had been acquired by the plaintiff, to…
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Bill in equity, filed December 6, and amended December 17, 1901, against J. Sumner Holt and Russell S. Holt, both of Boston, copartners doing business under the name of J. S. Holt and Company, and Myron L. Whitcomb and Howard L.' Clark, both of Haverhill, copartners doing business under the name of J. H. Winchell and Company, to obtain possession of twenty-six lasting machines leased by the Boston Lasting Machine Company, whose rights had been acquired by the plaintiff, to J. H. Winchell and Company and sold by them to the defendant J. Sumner Holt, who, as alleged in the amendment to the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring-, J.
By the bill in this suit when it was filed, the plaintiff sought to obtain possession of twenty-six lasting machines which had been leased to J. H. Winchell and Company and sold outright by them to the defendant' Holt for $300. By what is entitled an “interlocutory decree ” but which apparently was made on a motion for a temporary injunction, it was found that the machines had been shipped out of the Commonwealth, and the defendant was directed to file his answer before it was *99due. This was in effect an order that the bill be retained for the assessment of damages, which was the only relief…
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